apibuilder-cli mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• apibuilder
• create-config
• read-config

Projektgeschichte

The public apicollective/apibuilder-cli repository was created in 2015. The README describes a CLI centered on the app.apibuilder.io service: public APIs need no setup, while private APIs use a generated configuration file containing an API token.

The broader API Builder site presents the service as tooling for modern APIs, including management, sharing, version history, native libraries, and code generators. The CLI is the package-manager-facing piece of that ecosystem, exposing generator and upload workflows to scripts.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents Homebrew installation on macOS and a shell install path for other platforms. The batch input shows Homebrew packaging, which is consistent with a developer workflow tool used from local repositories and CI jobs rather than as a long-running service.

Wie es verwendet wird

The CLI can list organizations, applications, and versions; invoke a named generator into a target directory; upload an API descriptor with a version; update generated code based on .apibuilder/config; clean API Builder versions not tagged in the source repository; and check or upgrade the CLI itself.

Private API use stores tokens in ~/.apibuilder/config. Project update workflows use a YAML .apibuilder/config file in the current repository to specify organizations, projects, versions, generators, target paths, file patterns, and generator attributes.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

apibuilder-cli matters as glue between an API catalog and generated client/server code in a local source tree. For package users, the interesting bits are the split between global credentials and per-project generator config, and the fact that the CLI can be driven from Git hooks or continuous delivery with silent upload and clean modes.

Zeitleiste

• 2015: Public apicollective/apibuilder-cli repository created.
• 2010s: README documents Homebrew installation and token-backed private API setup.
• 2026: Repository metadata shows continued pushes to the public repository.

Related projects

• apibuilder-cli is related to the API Builder web service, app.apibuilder.io generators, API descriptor formats, and generated clients such as Play, http4s, Android, Kotlin, and other generator-backed outputs.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/apicollective/apibuilder-cli
• https://app.apibuilder.io/generators
• https://github.com/apicollective/apibuilder-cli#readme
• https://www.apibuilder.io/
• input source_facts.package-manager